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Anna Grigoryan on Pashinyan’s Fight Against Oligarchs: “Now They Have Become Civil Contract Members”

Anna Grigoryan, a member of parliament from the Armenia faction, has criticized Nikol Pashinyan’s government, stating that the authorities, who previously spoke about fighting oligarchs and the criminal-oligarchic system, are now cooperating with representatives of the former authorities.

“Nikol Pashinyan used to come here and say that we must fight against oligarchs, against the criminal-oligarchic system. One of those people is the man who used to sit here; now he holds an umbrella over your heads, brings you fourth-grade wheat, and you go and take selfies with him one by one,” Grigoryan said, referring to Samvel Aleksanyan.

Addressing Ashot Arsenyan, the owner of Jermuk Group, the MP asked whether his son was a regional governor and recalled that in 2021 he had headed the pre-election headquarters of the Republicans in the I Have Honor alliance. Grigoryan emphasized that she had never been part of the government and had expressed her principled position.

According to her, some people who used state levers under the former authorities and accumulated their wealth have now become representatives of the Civil Contract party.

“Every Republican ‘ten-percenter’—excuse my language—is now working for Civil Contract. Isn’t that the case? Of course it is,” Anna Grigoryan declared, questioning the consistency of Pashinyan’s statements about fighting the former oligarchic system.

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“Hetq”: Sasun Khachatryan Acquired Tree-Covered Municipal Land for 4 Million Drams and Is Building a Structure There

Former chairman of the Anti-Corruption Committee Sasun Khachatryan, in 2013, while serving as prosecutor of the Arabkir and Kanaker-Zeytun administrative districts, acquired a 184-square-meter plot of land from the Yerevan Municipality at auction, paying 4 million 69 thousand drams. According to satellite images examined by Hetq, the area was covered with trees at the time of the sale. Now, a public-purpose building is being constructed on that plot at the beginning of Davit Anhaght Street, near the Lambada Bridge.

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Politik.am: Questions arise over changes to delivery deadlines for breathalyzer mouthpieces in the Patrol Service

Politik.am reports that there are problems with the provision of single-use mouthpieces for breathalyzers in the Patrol Service. According to the publication, the delivery deadlines established in the initial technical specifications of the tender were subsequently changed, while reports have been received from drivers about being given mouthpieces in opened packaging.

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Factor TV: A Company Belonging to the Family of an Artik City Council Member from the Civil Contract Party Has Received Contracts Worth Hundreds of Millions from the Municipality

A company belonging to the family of Tigran Baghdasaryan, a member of the Civil Contract faction on the Artik City Council, has signed multimillion-dram contracts with the Artik Municipality in recent years. As Factor TV reports, citing data from the state procurement system of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Armenia, the company has carried out road construction work in the municipality, receiving contracts worth hundreds of millions of drams.

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Martuni Deputy Mayor at the Center of a Conviction and a Criminal Case

Vahagn Davtyan, First Deputy Mayor of Martuni, has been convicted of submitting a forged document, while in another criminal case he is accused of an offense related to evading customs payments. Nevertheless, according to published information, he continues to hold municipal office and is included as number four on the Civil Contract Party’s list for the October 25 local self-government elections. These circumstances raise questions about the criteria used by the Civil Contract Party to select its candidates and the personnel policy of the Martuni Municipality.

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Mesrop Manukyan on the Waste of Yerevan’s Budget, Suspicious Procurement, and Systemic Corruption

Mesrop Manukyan addressed Yerevan’s budget expenditures, public procurement, urban development projects, and the fight against corruption during Satik Seyranyan’s program, presenting specific figures which, in his assessment, raise questions about the effective use of public funds.

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